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A shopping day & Wyatt's new nook

I have been working this week on our room, making sure it is "just so."
After moving some furniture around and a day of thrift store shopping. Wyatt now has more space to play and can get to his toys easier. I have also taken out over half of his toys to rotate them in, so he can manage what he has better.


lunch break on our shopping day

He was a trooper on our shopping day (we stopped at 7 shops), snacks on the road and turnip greens at Cracker Barrel were fuel to keep him going. As well as, his new finds: an orange ball (free), a green dinosaur (.25), a wooden boat (free thanks to Mr. Tom), a basket to house his pink and purple crayons (.25), and 3 crayons at Cracker Barrel (free).

His treasures are on top of what he calls his "closet" (the white piece of furniture, which by the way pulls out to function as his desk as well.) A ship ($2 at a porch sale in Wilmington), his box where he keeps all of his finding from our time outside (feathers, rocks, shells, pecans, berries, sticks,, etc), and his bank (He loves hunting for coins with his magnifying glass).

Do you know your animals?

In the paper, there was a whole page of animals to identify.
Wyatt got half of them right (considering that he could not read the options, he did pretty well.) But he did have a few surprising answers.
The ones he knew: deer, turtle, squirrel, rabbit, snake, dragonfly, & cardinal (his favorite bird.)

The others: He did know that the sparrow was a bird, but did not know that it was specifically a sparrow. He also thought the bobcat and coyote were birds. He said the turkey was a duck. And he called the chicken a zebra (in his defense it was a striped chicken.)

My second favorite of his answers was that the raccoon was a monkey.
And my favorite of all of his answers: the alligator was a triceratops.

a duet